when it starts
getting late
colonize walls
and mute their colors;
because, in warm
window light pouring
from coffee shops,
strangers
look familiar;
because old snow
on pasture contracts
and grows smoother
and the foreground
on the interstate
moves faster
than the landscape—
we suppose
there must be
complex rules
governing even
the simplest place,
so, although we
can scarcely
keep ourselves awake,
we'd best stick
around a while longer
to investigate.
